Over 8,000 fail teacher licensure exams

At least 8,000 teacher trainees have failed their teacher licensure examinations, the National Teaching Council (NTC) announced on Monday (4 January 2021).

The figure represents 30.7% out of a total of 27, 455 candidates who sat for the examinations.

In all 19,013 candidates, representing 69.3% passed the exams, a statement from NTC revealed ahead of the release of the results of the October 2020 Ghana Teacher Licensure exams on Tuesday (5 January 2021).

Below is the full statement:

The council has called on all candidates to check their results from the NTC online portal at exam.ntc.gov.gh by using either their pins given during registration or their examination index numbers using their phone numbers.

Candidates are also supposed to print their provisional certificates.